Quotes about Architecture

“Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.”

“Grenfell, the building set on fire with the help of its own face, is a scene of a complex injustice: one that is moral, economic, political, and aesthetic. Not only was the cladding unsafe, it was ugly; not only was it ugly, it was untrue both to the architecture of the building it covered and untrue to its responsibility to human safety.”

“We have to base architecture on the environment.”

“Every problem is super-interesting and has its own nuances, and you solve it today, but you try to solve it with an architecture. You build a machine to solve the problems that are like it later. And then you move on to the next.”

“I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.”

“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.”

“Architecture is a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology.”

“My husband John's and my breaks are often very culture heavy. He cannot pass a museum without venturing inside, so we tend to see a lot of architecture and so-called places of interest.”

“It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.”

“Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.”

“I love architecture, I love buildings, I love history, buildings that have got a story to tell, and we can save the building along the way by turning it into a house. For me, as an architect, there's nothing better than that.”

“At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.”

“The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.”

“Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.”

“Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.”

“There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.”

“Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.”

“The Ambedkar park represents modern Lucknow. It might not have the stature of a historical monument like the Taj Mahal, but it has an architecture which doesn't fail to impress.”

“One of the dilemmas of architecture in general is that there is a Catch-22 - you can't actually get to be commissioned to do certain types of building until you've already built that type of building. So it seems to be incredibly hard to get going.”

“Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.”

“Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.”